The Kite Runner

Name: The Kite Runner
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-12-14
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 7.3

2007 · Movie · PG-13 · 128 min · ★ 7.3 · 63% critics

Drama

Years after leaving Afghanistan for California, a man returns to his homeland when he learns a friend’s child is in trouble. As he revisits painful memories from childhood, he faces the past and a chance to make things right in a country shaped by war and loss.

Based on The Kite Runner

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Details

Years: 2007
Release date: 2007-12-14
Language: English
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 128 min
Critic score: 63/100
TMDB rating: 7.3/10 (1,248 votes)
Box office: $73,200,000
Budget: $20,000,000

About

You may like this if you want a heavy, emotional story about friendship, guilt, and redemption, with a vivid sense of Afghanistan; Not for you if you prefer lighter drama or slower, sorrowful stories like White Bird or The Secret Life of Bees.

Pros: moving redemption story; strong emotional impact; vivid setting | Cons: rushed adaptation; missing key details; slower second half